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... action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a most wonderful manner to ab- breviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own ...
... action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a most wonderful manner to ab- breviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own ...
Side 15
... action , at every age of life , ranging through all the scale of condi- tion , from god to beast , and never transgressing the ideal serenity , but in convulsive exertion the liege of order and of law . Thus , of the genius of one ...
... action , at every age of life , ranging through all the scale of condi- tion , from god to beast , and never transgressing the ideal serenity , but in convulsive exertion the liege of order and of law . Thus , of the genius of one ...
Side 37
... wood ? the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thought for ages , and not HISTORY . 37.
... wood ? the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thought for ages , and not HISTORY . 37.
Side 53
... action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appearance on parade . Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their liv- ing in the world , -as invalids and the ...
... action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appearance on parade . Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their liv- ing in the world , -as invalids and the ...
Side 59
... action will explain itself , and will explain your other genuine actions . Your conformity explains nothing . Act singly , and what you have already done singly will justify you now . Greatness always appeals to the future . If I can be ...
... action will explain itself , and will explain your other genuine actions . Your conformity explains nothing . Act singly , and what you have already done singly will justify you now . Greatness always appeals to the future . If I can be ...
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Essays [1St Ser., Ed.] With Preface by T. Carlyle Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
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Side 217 - it invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship. Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will shew themselves great, though they make an exception in your favour to all their rules of trade.
Side 247 - there a depth in those brief moments, which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. For this reason, the argument, which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely, the appeal to experience, is forever invalid and vain.
Side 320 - first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings and afloat. He will abstain from dogmatism, and recognise all the opposite negations between which, as
Side 59 - pity him no more, but thank and revere him;—and that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendour, and make his name dear to all History. It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance, —a new respect for the divinity in man,—must work a revolution in all the offices and relations
Side 61 - of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own templedoors, and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God. Every new mind is a new classification. If it prove a mind of uncommon activity and power, a Locke, a Lavoisier, a Hutton, a Bentham, a
Side 42 - in a young person. I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife. Let us bow and
Side 345 - Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature all is
Side 237 - art and nature, hope and dread, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest. Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is. The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for
Side 271 - your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal as themselves, and over-royal, and the father of the gods. But what rebuke their plain fraternal bearing Casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other, and wound themselves ! These flatter not. I do not wonder that these men go to see Cromwell, and
Side 94 - may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labour cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot